As one of the UK’s leading independent professional services companies we are currently looking to recruit an accomplished Senior Secretary for our Chester office. You would be responsible for providing enthusiastic, efficient and effective secretarial and administrative support to Partners and senior management across the office.

Key responsibilities will include extensive diary management on behalf of Partners, managing their time commitments, arranging meetings, dealing with expense claims and timesheets, plus sorting through emails and updating contacts. You will also be tasked with typing up of correspondence, both audio and copy, including reports, draft letters, presentations and proposals, plus taking, typing up and circulating minutes from internal meetings. You would field telephone enquiries and liaise with clients, deal with all incoming mail, as well as handle other ad-hoc administrative tasks as and when required by the team.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced and supremely well organised Secretary / PA with significant experience providing high quality administrative support to senior management within a large national firm. You will require audio typing skills and must have a copy typing speed in excess of 50 wpm. You will be able to demonstrate effective time management skills and the ability to prioritise a varied workload appropriately, plus an excellent eye for detail and a methodical and professional approach. You will be a strong communicator with good IT skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint), able to work on your own initiative with minimal supervision.

With almost 3500 partners and staff across 34 offices generating a fee income of over £300 million, and having recently undergone an exciting rebrand, you would be joining one of the 3 principal mid-market accountancy firms at a particularly interesting time.

The job may be suitable for candidates who have experience as the following: Secretary, PA, Personal Assistant, EA, Executive Assistant, Secretarial Assistant, Team Secretary, Group Secretary, Senior Secretary.

This job would be suitable for candidates based in the following locations: Chester, Cheshire, Liverpool, Ellesmere Port, Deeside, Wrexham, Nantwich, Crewe, Northwich, Runcorn, Warrington.